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Re:Kimi K3 is now live on Friday July 17, 2026 @02:06AM (#48943827)
Theres no way you will be able to host it yourself. It’s way too large.
Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework on Friday April 10, 2026 @11:47AM (#47719882)
Not exactly what you asked, but I recently answered a very similar question on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79345013/how-to-focus-te...
Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:14PM (#47694109)
Iced is the clear number one for me, too. The only thing I'd love to see officially supported in iced in the future is mobile apps. But it looks like that ain't gonna happen anytime soon (with the most recent PRs getting rejected once again).
Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:11PM (#47694078)
The only things I don't like about this is a) your binaries will become huge and very slow to compile with optimizations enabled and b) it's dependence on GPUI and its unsure future direction (I'd like to see GPUI thrive outside of Zed but the maintainers have clarified that that's not the goal for now).
Re:Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:05PM (#47693979)
Isn't pure CPU rendering possible in iced with the tiny-skia backend?
Re:GCC SC approves inclusion of Algol 68 Front End on Sunday November 23, 2025 @03:39AM (#46021820)
The Rust Community is working on gcc-rs for this very reason.
Re:WebGPU and the Price of Compiling WGSL on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @12:11AM (#45499315)
There are some new interesting developments though: https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/8217 Just sadly not in the spec as mentioned.
Re:Rust Survey 2019 Results on Saturday April 18, 2020 @05:53AM (#22906562)
The text in the last survey question (target platform) seems wrong (or the graphic is wrong).
Re:BMW shares AI tools used in production on Sunday December 15, 2019 @01:05PM (#21797730)
Yes, I agree it’s mostly tools...